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The second part of The committee-man curried. By the first author, S.S.; Committee-man curried. Part 2
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Sheppard, S. (Samuel)
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1647
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Wing S3168; Thomason E401_40; ESTC R201807
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soule the States-men that so long have revelled now hang their heads like full-ear'd corne two of them supt last night in London at a place where I then was in the midst of supper one askt what a clock 't was and when 't was told started as if he had been to run a race there 's some great storm towards whispering in every corner and there has been about the town to day a murmuring and a buzzing such as men use to make when they do fear to vent their fears 1 Ser. T is he upon him upon him Loy How now my friends what means this outrage 1. Ser. Quietly 't will be your best way Loy Best way for what 2 Ser. Why 't will be your best way because there is no other Rapio that 's the word you must along Sir Loy Is that the word then here 's my sword runs at them one scapes away Exit Ser. Murder murder murder h 'as kild one of the Kings Officers murder murder Loy The people begin to gather I must not stay Enter Constable People Con. What 's the matter Ser. Here Sir here oh a man-mender a man-mender has broacht me in so many places all the liquor in my body will run out Oh oh Con. In troth neighbour and in good deed saw I am very sorry for your hurts on my life this was one of the carriers Ser. Cavaliers you meane Con. I Cavalier would I had him in hold the Committee I believe would order him Ser. Hang the Committee ô shall I bleed to death some help good people Con. Alas neighbour see h 'as tapt him at the wrong end too hee has been busie with you here behind as they say lend a hand some of you I charge some in the Kings name to follow mee Exeunt Act 2. Scene 1. Enter againe Loyalty Loyalty I Shall not scape them sure which way now ther'e 's no passage that way a doore and open too Enter againe Exit Where am I now Enter a Maid Maid O Mr. Lovelesse my Mistresse hath been in such feares for you Loy Ha for me 't is fit I apprehend her and take the opportunity aside Alas I could not help it Maid Sir shee 's i' th garden walks hoping your presence Loy This is prettie aside I le to her instantly Maid She hath been so distemper'd Loy How shall I beare my selfe aside I am very sorrie for that Maid Come Sir my Mistresse will rejoyce to heare your entrance Loy I le venter in Love guide me right this night and lovers shall restore thee back againe those eyes the Poets took so boldly from thee I le henceforth learne to love a woman better then I was wont who knows how this may prove The world is of a vast extent we see And must be peopled children there must be Exit with the maid SCENE 2. Enter Rebellion Sneake Reb. What caus'd their quarrell Sneak. This Sir because when you my Master and M. Time-Server were with him at the Sun Tavern you went away and left him sleeping on a bench which act he took so hainously that the next day he sent a furious challenge to my Master Reb. The place Sneak. Hide-Park Rebellion Tell M. Suckdry I will be there and back him as his second vengeance pursue him why made he choyce of mee I have had vigour in my arme ere now and yet I can doe somewhat tell him I le meet him at the houre appointed Farwell Sneak. I shall informe him Sir Exit Reb. The death of slaves pursue thee So now my houre of death drawes neer I could not force my tongue to a deniall I shall meet them at more distance then a country Gentle-womman sees the Lyons at first time I le goe though by the way I fall to ashes exit Rebel SCENE 3. Enter Time-server with Harlat◠Shallow-braines wife Time-ser Is he drunk Har. So dead that you may pound him in a mortar or shake him in a blanket stuck with pins and he nere cry for help Time-ser Very good fortune this favour does me ample amends for all thy frowns Sweet t is thy marriage night the thought of that creates an earthly heaven while now the fool thy husband snorts in 's bed and dreams that passing a rough tide he arrives at Cuckolds haven I 'me swallowed in the Ocean of thy beauty and thus I spread my armes for help Pulls her to him in a chaire they kisse Shallow-braines in his shirt peeps through the Arras Shal. So close Priest I shall pound you with her my wit is not so shallow but it can prompt me to save my head from being grafted on my marriage night J so revell with your salt lips the other sport is fulsome Har. Thou knowest J ever lov'd thee and that J took this fool but for a Stale his money thee and J will revellout in cloaths and banquets Shal. O where Time-Ser Ha ha ha was ever such a novice to fill the bed himselfe his marriage night sweet shal 's go to a chamber and there we will feast love unto the height and use variety in lust which shall beget perpetuall appetite Shal. I 'le circumvent you Sir Har. But now I think on 't first I pray resolve me Sir doe you find no remorse at no time that you who are obliged to be a guide to others should so forget the way your selfe Time-ser And what of that let men do as I say and not as I do is man inslav'd more then the beasts Does not the wombe of one faire spring bring unto the earth many sweet Rivers that wantonly do one another chase And in one bed kisse mingle and imbrace nice observations cleave to easie souls that love to be deluded Har. Can you deceive the world so Time-ser As easily as Whores their jealous husbands I must seem holy to the publike view else there 's no comings in 't is out-sides men are taken with I can on the Fast-daies presse abstinence and on Thanksgiving daies teach how wee ought rejoyce with moderation on Sabbath daies exhort to strict devotion and keeping of that day inviolate else not a penny from the Sisters purses but oh away prophane Shal. I me verie cold that villan will undoe me Har. Sir you are absolute in hypocrisie an art I 'me not to learne but I that have been false my selfe would faine rely on your fidelity will ye prove true unto me Shallow lightning blast um would they would rise Time-ser By this and this loves breakfast they kisse and by his feasts to come by all the beauty in this face Har. O hold sweare not by that sicknesse and mischance are great devourers and when there is not in these cheeks and lips left red enough to blush at perjury when you shall make it what shall I doe then Time-ser Our souls by that time sweet wil by long custom so acquainted be they will not need that duller truch-man flesh Meane time wee l teach love how to aime aright While we
do wound each other in his sight Shal. Ha ha ha they 're taken in my toyle They arise and as they go out fall in at a trap-door seen to be opened by Shallow-braine Now M. Time-server and my Bride how stoops down do you like your bathe Time-ser in the Vault We are undone this vault is full of mire not water Har. I do confesse my fault sweet husband draw me out Shal. I have no ambition to be hanged for you sweet-heart nor for the leacherous Priest there here one of you bind your selfe to this rope and view the light agen come now pulls up Harlot Shal. So now pull you up the Priest or let him lie there I think I have so cooled you you are this night unfit for Venus sports to morrow I 'le proclaime ye Hereafter men for this my name will hallow And will esteem them fools shall count mee shallow Exit Time-ser I sink deeper and deeper was I ordained to perish thus in mud Har. here Sir fasten your body to this rope if my weake strength can help come Sir Pulls him up dropping wet and durty Time-ser My cloathes are weightier then if I were arm'd cap a pe for the battell where shall I shift my selfe Har. I shake like to a lambe new yean'd upon a sheet of snow O fatall chance this misery Sir you have brought upon me Times I thought he had been so drunk the cannons iron throat could not have wak'd him let 's seek some place to shift us They passe through whirlpools and deep Ills doe shunne Who weigh the event e're that the action 's done Exeunt Act 3. Scene 1. Enter Loyalty Loy WHat have I done unto the Fates that they should thus find waies to ruine me this whore betraid me to my death and like the Syren useth to allure those that passe by to prey on um for none live here but whores and villans J have escapt their hands this house is full of thresholds and trap-doors would I were out J was i' th cellar too where maids were couch't J laid my hand groping for my way upon one of them and and she began to squeake J must submit to chance and think on some way to relieve my selfe in meet time wait with patience We must not let our griefe be too profound Mans paine should be no greater then his wound SCENE 2. Enter Suck-dry Com-curse Shal brains as in Hide-Park Common-cur You have observed your time are nobler then J thought you would have been where is your second Suck Where 's yours Com. Here. Suck What Shallow-brains Shal. Yes Sir Shallow-braines who intends e're that his Master shall be wrong'd for to beat out your braines Suck J like thy humour well go on and prosper my friend staies long Enter Rebellion and standing afar off gazeth upon them Reb. As J live they are so foolish as to fight see where they stand J would give twenty pound now for Fortunatus wishing hat that in a trice J might flie home againe J had thought not to have found them there Suck Now yonder comes my friend Com. Yes he steals along as he had rob'd some henroost Reb. J am descride nor can J now give back feare seizes on me like the hand of death Gentlemen J am come but may not fight Com. How not not fight Reb. No Sir this night J had a vision that certified mee if J should fight to day 't were as much as my life's worth Com. Base coward get thee home again drawes Come M. Suck-dry let us now meet in single battell here and struggle till wee want our soules Suck Alas Sir you see my second doth refuse to fight and besides as yet J have not made my peace with heaven J nere thought on 't till now Com. Under this tree kneel down and quickly end thy orisons Suck Alas Sir this place is not convenient let me go home and anie other day you shall appoint J will be sure to meet you Reb. They 're busie in discourse I le take the opportunity runs away Suck Slave I le be thy confessor thou art not worthy of my sword a wand were better cuts a cudgell I le bee your ghostly father nay stirre not if thou dost I le cut thee into Atâ—oms and let the humerous wind to fanne the o're thee earth Suck Oh oh good Sir let me go home I le enter into bond to give forty pounds Com. So perishing sailors pray to storms and so they heare agen bangs him sirrha confesse unto me J know J have been everie way as guiltie as thy selfe but Tve repented of what hath been and left my cursed calling and now I le Currâ—e thee into a better Creed Suck O hold Sir J will confesse Com. Come then Suck J do acknowledge J have hitherto pretended zeale to God and love to goodnesse onely to blind the eyes of men Com. So. Suck And J have contrarie to the very light of knowledge extold those men for vertuous faithfull ones whom J have knowne to be the worst of Traytors Men that turne blacke to white and can with ease Forme holy earth the rivers and the seas Com. Good very good Suck That I with them have daily hoorded that coine the foolish Commons have brought in swaid with a foolish zeal and that I have used all means to impede what ere did tend to peace Com. Hold my ears are blistered sore already and should I heare thee further I feare they will drop off be gone I le leave thee wishing thy conversion the constitution of my soule agrees not with this climate I le leave this Isle ere long Where want keeps vertue down and none can rise Without they 'r o' th' Committees or th'Excize Suck I 've scap'd with life I le home and if I can I will till death be a Committee-man Exit Act 4. Scene 1. Loyalty put forth in a bed with him Vrinall a Physitian and three Creditors Loy YOu know what 's my disease Sir Vri Yes and the cure Loy Jf it take I will reward your friendship is my uncle sent for Vri. Yes Loy My friends I 've sent for one able enough to pay you 1. Cred. But is he willing Sir Loy For that you must remain in hope two houres will not expire ere you receive your money or be for ever out of hope 2. Cred. Of paiment Heaven forbid it sir Loy I le joyn with you in the same prayer but if it happen that unawares you do receive your money you 'l not be timerous to trust anew 1. Cred. You shall not want for cloth 2. Cred. For Linnen 3. Cred. For money Loy I thank you all Enter a Servant Ser. Mr. Rebellion is without Loy Admit him in Sir von know your charge to the Physitian Now must I practise my disguise Enter Rebellion Reb. How now nephew although I once resolved forever to desert thee yet naturall affection cannot be hid what 's your desire Loy You see Sir in what a despicable